Occupation of Czechoslovakia

The Occupation of Czechoslovakia occurred on 15 March 1939 when the Wehrmacht armed forces of Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, having already annexed the Sudetenland region. Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion in response to pleas from Slovakia for German assistance in achieving independence, and Hitler called Prime Minister Emil Hacha of Czechoslovakia to Berlin. Hacha was forced to allow "German protection" to avoid the Luftwaffe bombing Prague, and German troops entered the country on 15 March. The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was established in what is now the Czech Republic, while the Slovak Republic had its own independent section in Slovakia, although it was a puppet state.